Deepen your understanding of communities influenced by religious belief and consider fundamental questions about the meaning and purpose of human life.
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Religions in relationship
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In this module, students will be offered an opportunity to examine a range of key interactions between the five main world religions – clashes of beliefs and values, the historical events to which these have given rise, and ways in which difficulties, actual and potential, might be resolved.
Topics covered
- Introduction to the study of religions in relationship
- Christian-Jewish relations in the New Testament
- Later Christian responses to Judaism
- Franz Rosenzweig on Judaism and Christianity
- Contemporary Jewish responses to Christianity
- Jewish-Muslim relations, geopolitics and scriptural interpretation
- Christian-Muslim relations: Legacies of Christian responses to Islam
- Muslim-Christian relations: Legacies of Muslim responses to Christianity
- Hinduism and interfaith relations: Responding to Eurocentrism
- Buddhism and interfaith relations: Complicating the definition of ‘religion’
Assessment
Forum participation (5%); a two thousand-word essay (45%) and a 1.5-hour unseen written examination (50%).
